Quilled and Beaded Finger-Woven Pouch

Place of OriginNorth America

Datemid 18th century

Dimensions15 × 11 × 1/2 in. (38.1 × 27.9 × 1.3 cm)

Mediumwool, glass beads, silk, porcupine quills, natural dyes, tin, deer fur, hide

ClassificationTextiles and Fiber

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

2023.357

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 18

DescriptionFinely finger woven in black wool, with eccentric white glass pony beadwork in an overall lattice pattern, the upper edge trimmed in (faded) green silk ribbon, the lower edge, trimmed with a fringe of quill-wrapped pendants, dyed in red, white and black with linear designs, terminating in tin cones inserted with red-dyed deer fur; two quill-wrapped panels, in similar colors and green, with terraced elements, flank each side.

Published ReferencesPhillips, Ruth B. and Dale Idiens, “‘A Casket of Savage Curiosities’: Eighteenth-century Objects from Northeastern North America in the Farquharson Collection,” Journal of the History of Collections, 1994, vol. 6, no. 1.